Improvement in cotton-bale ties



C. SWETT.

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Patented lul 16,1872.

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4/". FHUTD-UYHOGHAPHIC C04 MY- VSELRIIE'S PROCESS) CHARLES SWETT, OF OOPIAH COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROYEMENT IN COTTON-BALE TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,191, dated July 16, 1872.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES Swnrr, of the county of Oopiah and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bale-Ties, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a top-plan view. Fig. 2 is a modification of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an edge view of Fig. 1. Fig. 4. is an edge view of Fig. 2.

The object of my invention consists in so forming the tie-plate as to avoid all loss or waste of metal in its construction, and at the same time furnish a plate that will fasten and hold the hooked ends of the band in the most secure manner. The nature of my invention consists in so punching or cutting the tie-plate as to leave two lips on each of the longitudinal edges of the same, which are relatively so arranged to each other that when the hooked ends of the band are passed over the plate each end of the same shall be secured by lips at the opposite edges of the plate. Thus is not only a most secure fastening effected, but all danger of the band slipping in either direction is securely guarded against.

The construction and operation of my invention are as follows:

A is the tie-plate, and is punched or otherwise formed out of any suitable metal. This plate A may be rectangular, square, or of any other desired shape, provided its longitudinal edges to a are parallel to each other. On each of these edges a a of the tie-plate are punched or otherwise out two lips, B B, which are inclined upward at a slightangle, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. These lips are not directly opposite, but are relatively so arranged as to leave their under bearing-faces diagonal to I each other.

slight loss of metal, while those of Fig. 1 are out without a particle of waste.

From the foregoing description, the operation of my improved tie-plate will readily be understood: The plate is furnished to the trade, as is the usual custom, with one of its oblate hooks or ends secured thereto. This is done by passing the body of the band C under the lips B B, so as to leave the outer end thereof beneath the plate and in such position as to bring it in direct contact with the bale. The bands are then properly arranged in the box of the press, so as to receive the cotton. After the latter has been duly compressed, reducing the'bale to the desired dimensions, the opposite endof the band C is turned or looped over, so as to form an oblate hook. which is.

passed over the end of the tie-plate and under one of the lips, and then so drawn in angular direction, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1, until the edge 0 of the band 0 passes the corner b of the lip, when it readily passes or is conveyed thereunder. When the expansive force of the cotton is left free to act the band C is securely wedged in between the tie-plate and bale, the lips preventing it from slipping in either direction.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The tieplate A, having the lips B B on opposite edges, as represented and shown in Fig. l of the drawing, and constructed and arranged as described, to form a fastening for the ends of metallic ties around bales of cotton and like material, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHAS. SWETT.

Witnesses:

Enwm JAMES, J 0s. T. K. PLANT. 

